Art and artefacts from ancient Egypt must rank among the most remarkable and influential from the ancient world. Yet we know comparatively…
Excavations at Areni 1 Cave in the Vayots Dzor region, on Armenia’s border with Iran and Turkey, have unearthed parts of a…
Ayutthaya lies on the bank of the Chao Phraya River, a mighty waterway fed by innumerable tributaries that rise in the Phetchabun…
The discovery of two art toolkits, dating to 100,000 years ago, in a south African cave, show early humans were capable of…
Imagine being played a DVD of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Russell Wallace discussing their views on evolution, or Boucher de…
Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology…
I tend to sum countries up by how they treat their archaeological sites and, in common with everyone I know, their…
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…
The main challenge of studying pre-Christian Scandinavia is that written sources describing the period mainly post-date the region’s official conversion by centuries.…
Prompted by a session on the subject at an annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, the editors, working on the…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…
In this beautifully illustrated new compendium of ancient Greek material culture, Richard Neer spans 2,350 years of art history from the Bronze…